John F. Archard

John Frederick Archard[1] (1918–1989) was a British engineer known for his wear studies.[2][3]

Career

Archard went to the Worthing High School for Boys before he entered the University College of Southampton.[4] Afterwards, he served six years in the Royal Air Force (RAF), including at the headquarters of Coastal Command.[4] As a member of the RAF radar staff, he also made a trip to Washington.[4]

In 1946, he returned to Southampton for postgraduate research in optics.[4]

Starting in 1949 he worked in the surface physics section of the Associated Electrical Industries Research Laboratory, where he investigated the lubrication of heavily loaded contacts.[4]

In the 1950s he developed an analytical model used to describe abrasive wear based on the theory of contact of asperities, which became known in the literature as wear equation or Archard equation.[5][6][4][2][3]

Archard was a reader at Leicester University until his retirement in the early 1980s.[1] He ran a successful experimental tribology research program.[1]

He was a Fellow of the Physical Society and of the Institute of Physics.[4]

In 1989 he received the Mayo D. Hersey Award for his scientific contributions in the field of tribology.[7]

Private life

Archard lived in Tilehurst, was married and had two sons.[4]

See also

References
  1. Ponter, Alan R. S. (2013-09-09). "Re: Is wear law really Archard's law (1953), or Reye's law (1860)?". Archived from the original on 2018-05-28. Retrieved 2018-05-28. Jack was a Reader at Leicester until he retired in the early 1980s and ran a successful experimental tribology research program. He was very meticulous and I very much doubt if he had heard of Reye's work, particularly as it wasn't published in English. It is quite common for ideas to appear independently in different countries over time.
  2. Dowson, Duncan (1998). History of Tribology. London and Bury St. Edmunds: Professional Engineering Publishing Ltd.
  3. Asthana, Pranay (May 2006). Micro- and nano-scale experimental approach to surface engineer metals (PDF) (Thesis). pp. 11–12. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-05-28. Retrieved 2018-05-28.
  4. Archard, John Frederick (1959-06-11). "The Wear of Metals". The New Scientist: 1299–1301, 1309. Retrieved 2018-05-27. (NB. This magazine also contains a longer biography of the contributing author.)
  5. Archard, John Frederick (1953). "Contact and Rubbing of Flat Surface". Journal of Applied Physics. 24 (8): 981–988. Bibcode:1953JAP....24..981A. doi:10.1063/1.1721448.
  6. Archard, John Frederick; Hirst, Wallace (1956-08-02). "The Wear of Metals under Unlubricated Conditions". Proceedings of the Royal Society. A-236 (1206): 397–410. Bibcode:1956RSPSA.236..397A. doi:10.1098/rspa.1956.0144. S2CID 135672142.
  7. "Mayo D. Hersey Award". American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Retrieved 2018-05-27.
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